1. You will learn how to write essays which are very important for online, career, and academic writing, including summary, response, personal profile, life experience, argument and review/analysis. You will do this as you complete the required essays, in-class workshops, and homework based on the weekly classroom themes.
2- You will learn a variety of drafting skills, including notes, highlighting, interactive questioning of texts, and peer review. You will do this as you keep your class and book reading notes, write discussion posts and read response posts by your classmates and instructor, and edit and revise your semester-long practice writing, note taking, and essays into a final-draft online portfolio of your best work.
3- You will read a book, analyze the book in depth via your reading log, classmates and instructor, and learn how to write a professional book review.
4- You will complete extensive in-class writing workshops about copyediting, grammar, and style based on the writing situation called "TAP": topic, audience, purpose (see the sidebar page "Coursework Schedule")
5- International students and American students will learn how to track their first and second-language ability levels using language assessment guidelines:


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